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Chapter 50

They had a fun night with the boys. Cameron and Ben ran around and Charlie chased after them. Elizabeth made chicken tenders from scratch for dinner while Jason made sweet potato fries to go with them. By eight both boys were bathed and asleep in Cameron's room.

"They have a lot of energy." Jason said laughing as he sat at the table close to Elizabeth. He sipped his hot chocolate and just watched her.

"I was the same way when I was Cameron's age. My mom used to tell stories of how she would find me asleep in different parts of the house, because I would go until I just dropped." Elizabeth's voice only shook a little recounting the story.

Jason urged her close enough that she could put her head on his shoulder. "I don't remember anything before the coma. After I first woke up I didn't want to hear anything about Jason Quartermaine. After Ben was born I got curious and asked Lila what I was like as a child." He looked down briefly then up again at his wife.

"What did grandmother say?" Elizabeth asked covering his hand with hers.

"That I was a lot like Ben. Happy, chatty, extremely curious, and that I smiled a lot. She said that I liked to laugh." Jason shared. "I haven't really talked to my mom or dad about when I was younger. I think it would hurt them to have to remember what they lost." He said shrugging.

"I think it will hurt some. But I'm guessing that it will feel good too. They accept you as you are now, but that doesn't mean that can't still love the you that they lost." Elizabeth tried to explain. "Talking to Cameron about Sarah is painful, but it feels good to share her. Same with my parents. If you are curious you should talk with them. It will probably be very good for all of you." Elizabeth was silent for a minute. "When you told me your birthday was in September, did you mean that was the day you were born or the day you woke up from the coma?"

Jason smiled over at her. It was good question. "That's the day I was born. After I reconciled with my parents was the first time in years I celebrated. I let them take me to dinner at the Grille, it seemed to make them happy." He had prepared for things to be tense, but it had been a great night.

"You're going to be a pain to buy a gift for." Elizabeth said laughing. "You have pretty much everything you want."

"I'd be lying if I said that you were the first person to say that." He grinned. "I usually tell everyone not buy anything. My parents like for me to come to the house for dinner, but that's about the extent of the celebration."

"That won't fly anymore." Elizabeth warned him. "I'm not going to throw you a party." She knew he wouldn't like that. "But Cameron and I are going to make a fuss over you. I always made a fuss over him on his birthday. It didn't matter that we were on the run, I made that day as special as I could."

"This year we will make it special." Jason promised. "Speaking of his birthday, who is coming to dinner?"

"Em, Johnny, and Ben of course. Your parents, grandparents, AJ and his wife, and your aunt." Elizabeth had gotten RSVPs from all of them.

"Tracy?" Jason asked surprised.

"She just lost her boyfriend, and when I called to invite her she promised to behave." Elizabeth would have no problem bouncing her if she didn't.

"That's very big of you." Jason gave her a squeeze.

"Tracy reminds me of Sarah. She acts tough and goes on the attack because she's afraid of being hurt. Sarah acted out because our parents didn't really pay attention to her otherwise." Elizabeth wasn't going to whitewash the past just because her parents were gone. "They were more invested in their jobs than us. My Gram was with us most of the time. Our parents moved her into a senior living community when I started high school, Sarah started acting out right after that."

"From what I have been told, AJ's issue was similar. He needed more attention than our parents gave him. But ultimately he was the one who made the choice to not get help for his drinking. Blaming mom and dad only works for so long." Jason had visited his brother when he was in rehab right after Keesha left him. They had a long talk. It was the first time in AJ's life that he admitted he had a problem and was out of control. That acceptance that what was happening in his life was his fault paved the way to his recovery. "Are you going to work tomorrow?"

"I am." Elizabeth told him. "I'd like for the boys to finish the week here." She knew that the danger wasn't necessarily passed.

"That's the plan." Jason confirmed. "You are still taking your normal day off next week for your interview?"

"Yes." Elizabeth confirmed. "I go right from my appointment with Diane to the school. After I'm coming home and starting on the food for Cameron's birthday dinner." That was going to be a busy day.

"I can't talk you into ordering in?" He suggested a caterer.

"Nope. This is my chance to wow the family with my hostessing skills." Elizabeth grinned.

"I think they are already impressed by you." Jason felt a measure of pride that he was married to someone his family approved of.

"If I get the job at the school, I was thinking that I could also use the summer to get the food bank up and running smoothly. Over the summer lots of kids miss out on the free breakfast and lunch they get from school. I'd like to get the doors open as soon as possible." Elizabeth was excited by the project.

"Construction starts on Monday. It shouldn't take long to rehab the building. A few weeks at most." His guys were not going to dawdle. "Assuming the inspectors don't find any major issues I'm guessing we can open before school ends for the year." The building had been inspected before he and Johnny purchased it so Jason wasn't expecting any new problems. "I have no idea when school lets out, but we can find out and shoot for opening a few days before that."

"Thank you for doing this." She turned her hand and he linked their fingers.

"I just wish I had known sooner." Jason still gave to the local shelters for victims of domestic abuse. Sonny had done so and Jason didn't want them to miss the money. This just hadn't occurred to him. "When the work is done we'll go down and look at the space. It's a big building so we should have enough space to assure that we can hold enough food to help anyone who needs it."

"Sounds good." Elizabeth said smiling. "I should go lie down and try to rest before work tomorrow."

After taking care of the mugs, they walked upstairs hand in hand. After peeking in on the boys they crawled into bed and wrapped around each other slept.


The first sign that there had been a change at the hospital came when Elizabeth walked into the locker room. There was no lock on Leyla's locker. Most staff members didn't bother with a lock, there was trust that the doctors and nurses you worked with wouldn't steal your spare underwear. Leyla however had a lock. She didn't trust anyone.

After getting changed Elizabeth headed down the hub and checked her schedule, where she got the next indicator of change. Leyla's name and rotation had a thick black line through it. Once Liz confirmed she was in the ER she headed down to start her shift. "Hey." She said walking over to where Emily was drinking coffee.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Johnny had said that Lucky was no longer an issue last night so Emily had given her sister some space, trusting that Jason had the situation under control. "Dad told everyone you had a death in the family, so you'll be hearing a lot of people say they are sorry for your loss."

"Thanks for the heads up." Elizabeth looked around and when she saw that no one was nearby she whispered. "What happened to Leyla?"

"She got terminated and is facing jail time." Emily passed along.

"Jail time?" Elizabeth said shocked. She hadn't expected that.

"She untied Ethan and helped him make a phone call. The guard on duty told his supervisor that he suspected it was Leyla who spiked his coffee since she was the one to bring it to him." Emily whispered back.

'I don't want her to go to jail." Elizabeth was starting to feel guilty.

"She won't." Emily knew what Liz was feeling because she had the same thoughts last night. "Johnny promised me that she is only going to get community service." What her husband left out was that Leyla's life was about to become really hard. She was going to be stripped of everything she valued starting with her nurse practitioner certification. "She's going to have a hard time getting a job at any hospital around here again. I'm guessing after she does her required service she will leave Port Charles."

Elizabeth shook her head. "I still feel bad." She couldn't help it.

"I did too, but then I remembered that Leyla made the choice to help him. She told Piph that she would do it again because no one should have their child stolen. She completely skipped over the part where I said Cameron's dad was abusive. She told Piph you were probably lying." Emily filled in what one of the other nurses had heard while eavesdropping. The whole hospital was talking about it.

"What happened to Ethan?" Elizabeth wanted to know.

"Transferred to Mercy right after the incident. Dad said since he was a threat to one of the staff members he had to go." Emily filled in.

A throat clearing had both women turning around. "Elizabeth."

"Epiphany." Elizabeth prepared to face the head nurse.

"Det. David Harper is here to see you." Epiphany told her nurse practitioner. The police had stopped by yesterday wanting to speak with Elizabeth, when they were told she was out they said they would try again today. The head nurse found it odd they didn't try to see Elizabeth at home.

"Okay." Elizabeth looked over to where the Detective was waiting. Emily was already on the phone when she walked away. "Detective."

"Mrs. Morgan." Harper looked at the small women in front of him. This is not what he pictured Jason's wife looking like. "I need to speak to you about an incident involving Leyla Mir and Ethan Lovett."

"I'm working at the moment, can you come back when I'm on break?" Elizabeth asked noticing that Kyle was on the phone too.

"We'd like to clear this up as soon as possible. If you would come with me?" Harper requested.

"Where?" Elizabeth couldn't stop her stomach from rolling. The police terrified her now, even with Lucky gone that feeling remained.

"Downtown." He could see that she was afraid. That wasn't his intention. When Officer Barrett called in to say what happened they did a deeper run on Lovett and came up blank. He wasn't in anyone's database, but he was too smooth for this to be his first con. After what the Mir woman had divulged last night they were guessing that someone had tampered with the system to give Lovett that squeaky clean background.

Leyla Mir has said Lovett called someone about the little boy Cameron. A search starting with the small child had lead them to Lucky Spencer. The former police officer's suspected, and confirmed, misdeeds had left a sour taste in Harper's mouth. How the man had been allowed to terrify the woman in front of him, and her son, was beyond him. The fact that it was clear there was some sort of cover up and deep seeded corruption in the police force in her home town pissed him off. Dirty cops tarnished the badge for everyone else. The Feds were looking for Spencer and Harper hoped they found him soon. The PCPD was now on alert in case he showed up in Port Charles.

"We can't talk here?" Elizabeth's palms were starting to sweat.

"I'm afraid not. This is part of a larger investigation and I need our conversation to be official." Harper was going to be as gentle as possible.

"I need to get my purse." She said quietly. "And my guard needs to come with me."

"He can drive you over." Harper allowed.

"Okay." With a quick glance at Emily, Elizabeth went to gather her things.


By the time she got to the station Francis was waiting. "Give us a minute." He told the Detective who showed them to an interview room, Harper nodded and walked out. "You okay?" Francis was worried, she looked paler than normal.

"Am I going to jail?" She had technically committed a crime by using a false identification when she applied to the hospital. While she really was a certified nurse practitioner the license was invalid because of the fake name.

"No." Francis assured her. "Just let me handle things. Don't answer anything I less I say its okay and don't volunteer any information."

"Will this be bad for Jason?" She didn't want to hurt him, not after everything he did for her.

"I'll make sure Jason stays safe." Francis promised her. Lucky had taken great pains to stay below the radar. Using facial recognition software Spinelli created, and only he had, the hacker spotted him flying out of Atlanta and into Akron. After that Spencer dropped off the grid. The guys had the boosted car Spencer drove into Port Charles which worked out well for them. "Ready?" There was no proof Spencer had ever come here.

"Okay." Elizabeth said a quick prayer for forgiveness. Jason was going to be so angry at her, but she didn't see any other way for this to go away.

David Harper walked back in and sat down. He started by reading Mrs. Morgan her rights. "Do you know Ethan Lovett?"

She looked at Francis who nodded. "Aside from his stay at the hospital we've never met."

"He spent time in the same small town in Colorado that you lived in." Harper pointed out.

She looked at Francis who again nodded. "The town isn't that small. It's bigger than Port Charles. Ethan and I didn't socialize with one another."

Harper nodded. Based on what the Feds had gathered, Lucky did his best to keep Elizabeth and her sister Sarah apart. Mrs. Morgan not knowing Ethan made sense. Especially since the con man was said to have left before Cameron Hardy was born. "We suspect that Ethan may have called Lucky Spencer. Has he contacted you?"

Francis nodded. "No." Elizabeth answered which was true, he hadn't contacted her.

"Can you tell me when the last time you saw Spencer was?" Harper wanted to know.

Before Francis could stop her Elizabeth gave her answer. "In Portland the night I killed him."


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